Neither neutral nor involved: Les Editions de Minuit

This voluminous book (528 p) from the thesis of Anne Simonin traces the first thirteen years of clandestine Editions de Minuit founded in 1942 by Jean Bruller (Vercors) and Pierre Lescure, to their integration and recognition within the publishing landscape French. Their first title, "The Silence of the Sea" (Vercors) was a bang. It was followed by many others, despite shortages of paper, the risks incurred by both printers by the networks to broadcast. Editions of refusal and insubordination, Editions de Minuit remained true to their motto in the years after the Liberation, led by Jérôme Lindon, Georges Lambrichs and Alain Robbe-Grillet,
This book was born of a considerable work skinning unpublished archives (Editions de Minuit, Gallimard ...) and private is a reference to more than one: by its subject - the study of a house of After edition of the Resistance - and the novelty of his sources while access to contemporary archives remains so difficult today.
Recommended.